Hangul
Jammu and Kashmir: Dachigam National Park arranges food for Hangul amid heavy snowfall
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife department authorities made special arrangements for food for endangered Kashmiri stag in the Dachigam National Park, media reports said.
The stag is locally known as "Hangul".
With the Valley receiving a significantly increased amount of snowfall this year, it has been very difficult for the Hangul to get proper food in the upper reaches, reports ANI.
"This year it snowed much more than usual and the deer came down to the Dachigam National Park in search of food. They are our animals and we are being careful and making sure that Hanguls get enough to eat," Younis Ahmad, wildlife guard at the National Park, told ANI.
He said movement of the Hangul has increased this year so extra care is taken in providing them food.
Altaf Hussain, wildlife warden of the central division, told ANI: "Usually when the weather changes wild animals adapt. But the Hangul are a critically endangered species and are indigenous to our area. Keeping this in mind, we have to take mind specific measures."
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